In 2004, in a village in Benin, West Africa, an eleven-year-old boy was badly burned in a kerosene accident.
How was it possible that, in the twenty-first century, 1.6 billion People still did not have access to electricity? Sam\'s search for a solution drove him to business school at Stanford University, where he met Ned Tozun, a Silicon Valley.
Kerosene lanterns were dim, dangerous, and expensive sources of light.
Peace Corps volunteer Sam Goldman, who lived near the boy\'s family, was horrified.
In 2004, in a village in Benin, West Africa, an eleven-year-old boy was badly burned in a kerosene accident